The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

135, Knights Of Labor. The redistricting
of the territory, the eight hour system, and
kindred matters for the benefit of miners
will be discussed.
The residence of g. W. johnson at Vim
cennes. Ind, was struck by lightning on
the I'd. The whole family were knocked
senseless and two children were danger.
ously injured.
A strange horse disease, thought to have
been communicated from French stations,
is raging in Dewitt County, Ill.
c. B. PARCELS, for almost quarter of a
century manager of the Hall Safe and Lock
Company, at San Francisco, is a defaulter
for $50 600. 1t is thought mining stock
speculations ruined him. To avoid trouble
he has decided $40, 900 worth of real estate
to the company.
The final vote on local option for counties
was taken in the Michigan House on the
I'd, showing Al in favor and 46 against. This
is four short of the required majority of
members-elect. The bill will be reconsid-
cred.
A favorable decision in the will case
contested by the Widow Ford has been rem
dered at Madison, Wis, in regard to about
$4,000 of the property.
W. P. Steele (colored) was hanged at
jackson, Miss, ON the I'd for the murder Of
Nelson Potter (colored.) Steele protested
his innocence to the last.
State Attorney Grinnel, Of Illinois, has
accepted the nomination of the judicial
party at Chicago, on condition that he be
allowed to go on with the 'sboodle' cases.
The other nominees Of the bar meeting have
also accepted.
Senator Johns Alien Land bill, which is
said to be one Of the best measures of the
kind in the United States, passed the Il
linai tho rxyifh hn,,fa inn
vote.
Adolphus Ward. while descending well
at Clinton, Mo-, on the ID, in which shot
had just been fired, was overcome by gas
and fell to the bottom, breaking his neck.
Mrs. Wiley Moore, colored, living on the
plantation of Colonel 8. Elmore, near
Greenwood, g. c., a few days ago locked
her two children, aged respectively one
and two years, in her house and went to
spend the day with a neighbor mile dis
tant. During her absence the house was
burned and the two children perished in
the flames.
AtLaCrosse, Wis, on the Sd Tim Brady,
a gambler, attacked Oficer George Keyes
with knife and the latter shot his assail-
ant dead.
In the city court at Paducah, KY, on the
Sd Mollie Jackson, white woman, was
convicted of vagrancy, and Judge Thomas
ordered that she be sold to the highest
bidder for thirty days. This is the first
judgment of the kind ever made in that
section of the State, though it is not with
out precedent in other places in Kentucky.
General R. C. Newton, a leading lawyer
and prominent Democratic politician Of Ar
kansas, died at Little Rock on the Sd. He
commanded the Arkansas forces during
the Brooks Baxter war Of 1874 and was the
chief spirit of the element that triumphed.
Rev. Supply Chase died at Detroit. Mich,
on the Sd, aged eighty-seven years. He
came from Vermont to Michigan in 1886, as
one of the first Baptist missionaries. Dur
ing the war he was Commissioner Of the
Freedmen's Bureau.
An earthquake swept over the greater
portion of Northern California and Western
Nevada on the morning of the Sd. Buildings
| were shaken, springs dried up, and many
points affected more or less by the disturb
ance.
The Captain of the Lomax Rifles, Of Mo-
| bile, Ala.-the successful competitors at
| the national drill-writes that under no cir
| cumstances will the Lomax be a party to
| any action which would reflect in the least
upon the integrity of the officers of the
regular army who were judges in the recent
| competitive drill at Washington.